Imported chemicals will be declared via the national one-stop-shop portal from January 11, 2018. (Source: VNA)
Hanoi (VNA) – Imported chemicals will bedeclared via the national one-stop-shop portal from January 11, 2018.
The Departments of Chemicals, and E-commerce and DigitalEconomy under the Ministry of Industry and Trade officially launched the servicein Hanoi on January 11.
Addressing the event, Deputy Minister of Industry and TradeDo Thang Hai said with the freshly-launched procedure, the ministry has, todate, carried out 24 public services allowing individuals and organisations topay fees online, including six administrative procedures implemented via thenational one-stop-shop mechanism.
Nguyen Van Thanh, head of the Chemical Department, said ittakes businesses only about 15 seconds get the results of declaration via theportal as compared with at least five days in the past.
According to statistics released by the department, about70,000 chemical declaration dossiers of nearly 4,000 enterprises are submittedto the ministry annually.
The declaration process had been conducted online or at theministry’s headquarters traditionally, and the results had been given back toenterprises were in papers.-VNA
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Imported chemicals will be declared via the national one-stop-shop portal from January 11, 2018. (Source: VNA) 
